75-yr-old guard arrested for defiling 11-year-old girl on school premises

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a 75-year-old guard who allegedly raped an 11-year-old girl in a school premises.

Superintendent of Police, Ebere Amaraizu, the command’s Public Relations Officer, in a statement on Tuesday said the suspect was caught red handed by a citizen on August 30.

The suspect allegedly committed the offence in one of the structures at the Community Secondary School, Ugbaike in Igbo Eze LGA.

According to Amaraizu, the suspect had tried to influence the good Nigerian not to bring up the alleged heinous act.

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He said: “Just as the scriptural saying goes that one’s sin shall find him out, the iniquity of the man has found him out.

“The 75-year-old man was nabbed over alleged defilement of 11-year-old.

“It was gathered that the incident took place in one of the structures at the Community Secondary School, Ugbaike,” he said.

The suspect was reported to have confessed and begged for forgiveness, claiming that Satan led him into the crime.

“The suspect is now helping the police in their investigation,” Amaraizu added

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